Summary
Organization name
North Fork Senior Connections
2019
Tax id (EIN)
84-2118609
Category
Human Services
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
108 Third StPAONIA, CO 81428
Mailing
PO Box 1738Paonia, CO 81428
Delta County, CO, US
North Fork Senior Connections
A nonprofit organization
$1,332 raised by 11 donors
67% complete
$2,000 Goal
North Fork Senior Connections
CSA FOR SENIORS
Each year NF Senior Connections works with local farms and food producers to provide fresh produce and other nourishing foods to local seniors in need. We organize a team of volunteers to deliver food to 30 households through the valley, each Friday afternoon for 30 weeks a year. These weekly visits also provide important social contact for home bound seniors.
SERVICE WEEKENDS
Twice a year, in the Fall and Spring, NF Senior Connections organizes a large cadre of community volunteers to assist rural seniors with seasonal home maintenance chores. Tasks range from raking leaves, cleaning gutters and pruning vegetation to washing windows and preparing swamp coolers for the coming season. Entire families, active adults and students work together to help their neighbors age in place and in community.
NEIGHBORLY RIDES
Our rural valley has no public transportation, and this presents a serious obstacle for seniors needing to get to medical appointments, do grocery shopping or attend senior programs. Our recently established "Neighborly Rides" provides a hotline seniors can call to schedule transportation for such needs. Rides are provided by volunteers and have the added benefit of social connections for both parties.
SENIOR CONNECTIONS NEWSLETTER
Each month, Senior Connections staff prepares a newsletter of helpful information, announcements of upcoming programs, classes and events sponsored by NFSC and other local organizations. This newsletter goes out to hundreds of seniors throughout the valley, alerting them to pot lucks, free senior movies, exercise classes, informative coffee Klatches, book groups, walking clubs, meditation circles, and a range of other program and activities available in our community.
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Mission
Our mission is to organize volunteers, in North Fork Valley communities, to provide programming and services to enable seniors to age in place and in community.
Background Statement
North Fork Senior Connections is a locally run non-profit operating throughout the North Fork Valley of Western Colorado. Our area has a much higher population of seniors than the state average and a higher poverty rate among that senior population. We are a rural, agricultural community, with 100-year-old ranches, farms and orchards. Many of the seniors in this valley have lived here all their lives, and while they may have a home, many no longer have family nearby to assist them. Our communities are scattered and there is no public transportation linking us to larger towns for shopping or healthcare. Isolation and lack of transportation is a serious obstacle to seniors wishing to age in place. It is our mission to rally the community to provide essential services so seniors can remain in their homes and continue to be connected to the surrounding community. Our business model is to provide programs and services free of charge, to make them accessible to all in need. We recruit a large cadre of volunteers ranging from high school students, local adults and businesses, to active seniors moving to this area to retire. The community response to our organization has been excellent, and several local businesses and agricultural organizations are now donating fresh, local and nutritious food, which our volunteers then distribute to low income seniors. We have recently established a "Neighborly Rides" program to ensure seniors have transportation for doctors appointments and other needs.
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Organization Data
PAONIA, CO 81428
Paonia, CO 81428